Use common sense; think of the safety of the students first!

The school scanners can be bought by using the same room tax as for the stadium.

It is no secret that the safety in Clark County Schools as well as in the rest of the nation is in jeopardy every day, and as always the government officials take too much time “thinking” about how to solve the safety issues in the schools where the youth of our communities attend and spend a great part of their schooldays.
It’s a fact that everything elected and government officials do is done through holding meetings, choosing committees, and creating advisory groups to “do things,” and still so little gets done—but they can blame the members at the meetings, the members of the committees and the advisory boards and make up any number of other excuses forthat.
The children’s safety at the schools does not have time for any of those excuses; there should not be any reason to wait until a tragedy occurs in any of the local schools to start “working” on a solution.
One obvious solution is to realize that the nation is experiencing a very different kind of living; it is a different world that unfortunately is extremely violent and macabre and there is no reason why our youth should have to be exposed to all that.
Schools are still being built by old fashioned designers, such as when the schools were safe and respected by everyone, and violence was never on the premises — but that is no longer the case.
School administration does not need meetings, committees, advisory groups or anything else of that nature for adapting the schools to using only one entrance where they can better monitor everyone’s coming in and going out.
If the city hall can afford to install scanners to protect the elected officials, if the courts can afford scanners to protect the judges and their staff, and if the IRS can afford scanners to protect their employees, why not use scanners to protect the children in the community?
The “it costs too much” excuse is not good enough; the “there are too many schools in Clark County” is no excuse to not protect the safety of the students. It is time to stop finding excuses for not doing the jobs they are supposed to do.
The government is able to find funds whenever they want to do something that the elected officials want to do, need it or not; the elected officials force the community to support a private enterprise — like the stadium — at taxpayers expense; the government “decides” to move the municipal court out of the Regional Justice Center to give the Molansky family another excuse to make a few million more.
The excuse is that the extra room tax is only for the tourists, but they know very well that that is not true; many locals live in weekly rentals and they are affected by the room tax.
When the Regional Justice Center was half finished — in a laughable way, with no handicap ramp, not enough elevators, few emergency exits
and many other ridiculous mistakes that happened because of giving the contract to “a friend of someone” just because of bidding the best price — they accommodated the public to it as a convenience, one building for all the courts.
Of course the government cannot do everything “convenient” for the public, and Family Court was left out of the building with only three family court judges in the Regional Justice Center and the rest of Family Court miles away.
Now, a decade later, the city decides that they want their own courthouse building and are planning the construction of their own courthouse building by a nonnegotiable agreement with none other than… you guessed it— the Molansky family, with ties to city hall officials.
So now while the Molansky family makes several trips to their bank at the taxpayers’ expense, the same taxpayers that have to attend to the courts and make the mistake of going to the wrong building after taking off their shoes, their belts, and anything else they may be required to remove at the front door scanner will have to get dressed again, walk to another building a few blocks away, and go through the same inconvenience all over again, most likely even paying an extra twenty dollars for an overtime parking meter.
The school scanners can be bought by using the same room tax as for the stadium, or in the same way as the municipal court that most likely will be at someone else’s expense beside that of the city. It (the scanners installation) can come out of the Clark County School District’s budget and other groups’ budgets.
Or perhaps the Nevada legislature can ignore the gaming industry’s wishes and commands and start working on a lottery, like many other
states do, to use the money for the school scanners.
That is the reason why the government does not like the Las Vegas Tribune — because we tell what we believe needs to be said, whatever
that may be, whatever the reasons for saying it may be; the excuses need to stop and putting the safety of the students first has to be the priority.

City Council votes an abeyance of ordinance to jail developers
By Alexandra Cohen
De Oro Media Group
Las Vegas Tribune Exclusive
Tuesday the Las Vegas City Council Recommending Committee voted for an
abeyance on the controversial ordinance — Bill No. 2018-24 — sponsored
by City Councilman Steve Seroka, a councilman who is being sued in
Federal Court by developer Yohan Lowie for bias. This abeyance now
moves the bill to the September 4, 2018 Recommending Committee, then
to be heard by the full City Council on September 6.
The proposed bill will severally penalize developers with excessive
fines and jail time for not abiding by new standards. The bill is
opposed by the Commercial Real Estate Development Association (NAIOP),
The Latin Chamber of Commerce and Laborers Local 872, along with
others in the building and trades community. The bill NO.2018-24, also
known as the «Yohan Lowie bill,” is an ordinance to amend LVMC Title
19 (The Unified Development Code) to adopt additional standards and
requirements regarding the repurposing of certain golf courses and
open spaces.
The ordinance was met with strong position from those speaking at
today’s meeting. Tommy White, Secretary Treasurer of the Laborers
Local 872 said “this City Council is sending the wrong message to not
only the local building community, but to the entire nation. This is
simply government overreach.” Mr. White vowed to bring 600 of his
union members to the next meeting to protest the flawed ordinance.
Peter Guzman, President of the Latin Chamber of Commerce, stated, “I
have received numerous calls from my members opposed to this
ordinance. This ordinance is contrary to our group’s philology and
focus of promoting commerce and growth in our community.” Todd Davis,
General Council, EHB Companies pointed out to the Recommending
Committee that “the Agenda states ‘NO FISCAL IMPACT,’ when clearly
there is a fiscal impact to taxpayers ranging from substantial legal
fees to defend the ordinance, to hundreds of millions of dollars if
the ordinance is found to be a taking.”
Councilwoman Michele Fiore publically and vehemently objected to the
ordinance in the July 18 council meeting and at times verbally sparred
with the bill sponsor, Councilman Seroka, citing that the ordinance
started as a 5-page ordinance and FAILED in the Las Vegas Planning
Commission by a 5 to 1 vote. Now, behind the scenes, it has been
expanded to a 13-page document and is being considered for approval.
Developer Yohan Lowie, stated, “this is typical of the corruption and
disingenuous acts of certain members of the city of Las Vegas who have
demonstrated for the past three years, and one of the reasons why I am
in litigation with Councilman Seroka and Bob Coffin for the animus
they continue to display. They are enacting a law to create criminal
penalties for the property no longer being a golf course and no longer
being green. All property owners should be concerned.” This bill may
be as far-reaching as to affect individual homeowners living in a golf
course community.
SECTION 7 in the bill states: Whenever in this ordinance any act is
prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful... the doing of such
prohibited act or the failure to do any such required act shall
constitute a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be
punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.00 or by imprisonment for a
term of not more than six months.
Mr. Lowie has hired famed criminal defense lawyer David Chesnoff to
represent his interests in possible forthcoming criminal offenses that
may arise from this bill. Additionally, along with attorney and Lt.
Governor Mark Hutchison the City has been put on notice through a
letter, which states the City will be in violation of the EX Post
Facto Clause and Equal Protection Clause and a Taking by Eminent
Domain.
After the July 18 city council meeting, developer Yohan Lowie stated,
“If they want to put me in jail, they can. I will fight to my last
breath to prevent the City from EVER taking my property away. I will
continue to fight this matter all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to
get justice.”